An impressive array of sector leaders turned out in all their finery on Saturday to attend the wedding of Sir Stuart Etherington and Rosamund McCarthy.

The formal part of the proceedings took place at the Westminster Friends Meeting House in London where the couple were married in a Quaker ceremony. In keeping with centuries-old tradition, all those present were asked to sign the wedding certificate as witnesses, to remind the pair in future of the declarations they made, and of the people who were present on that day.

Bride and groom, with their guests, then walked across a sunlit Trafalgar Square to Sir Stuart’s domain at the Reform Club in Pall Mall where the reception was held. 

NCVO’s doughty chief executive showed his tender side when, in a moving speech, he expressed his love for his new wife by quoting from his favourite aria.  Lady Etherington, a partner at Bates Wells & Braithwaite, then led a remarkably sleek-looking Sir Stuart in the first dance, to the delight of the assembled company. 

All of us at Civil Society Media wish Stuart and Rosamund a long and very happy life together.

 

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